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A corybantic exploration into the annals of history, philosophy, theology, and mind. Join Cory and Calvin as they peer into the forbidden and maddening darkness that is reality. And over a nice beverage!

Cory Banta


    • Feb 27, 2024 LATEST EPISODE
    • infrequent NEW EPISODES
    • 1h 3m AVG DURATION
    • 41 EPISODES


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    E41: The Psychology of Conversion

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 27, 2024 89:05


    Therapy boys are joined by American expat in Russia, Evan, to discuss the phenomenon of the neurosis of religious conversion and the strange psychology of modern times.

    E40: Dante's Stars

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 2, 2024 58:42


    The boys discuss Dante, the angelic hierarchy, raccoon hunting, and classical astronomy.

    E39: Latter Days

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 10, 2023 65:24


    The boys are joined by guest Emma to discuss her history with the Mormon church.

    E38: Moon Man

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 30, 2023 57:44


    The boys are joined by special guest Peter AKA “The Moon Man”, a man on a mission to educate about geomorphology and alternative cosmology. We also touch on the Nephilim and meta-epistemology.

    E37: “Suffering, Happiness, and the Pursuit of Meaning”

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 3, 2023 49:51


    The boys join a new guest to discuss photography and the relativity of happiness.

    E36: The Symposiarch

    Play Episode Listen Later May 3, 2023 57:09


    Cory and his guest Gabriel discuss the art of hosting symposiums: parties that marry Apollo and Dionysius in a ceremony of good wine and conversation.

    E35: What Dreams May Come

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 21, 2023 49:09


    The boys sit down with dream scientist Jesse Lyon to discuss the nature of dreams and the original meaning and tradition behind the concept of the university.

    S34: The Metaphysiology of Taste

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 10, 2023 58:10


    The boys sit down to discuss French gourmand Savarin, food, the philosophy of taste, and the future (or lack thereof) of dining out.

    E33: Year in Review

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 20, 2023 59:01


    Jonathan and Cory discuss what they have learned over the past year.

    E32: The Inner Work

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2022 44:05


    The boys discuss crypto, Kanye, modern therapy, and why any hope in the immediate outer world is a distraction from inner virtue.

    E31: The Death of God

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 11, 2022 105:44


    The boys discuss atheism, ontology, and necrotheology. As well as the everyday presence of black magic.

    E30: Keeping Hallow in Halloween

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 27, 2022 54:46


    The boys discuss the calendar, the ontotheology of time, light pollution and looking beyond the Christian/pagan dichotomy of holy days.

    E29: The Sound and the Furry

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 28, 2022 55:16


    The boys gather to with Jonathan and Alexander to discuss the strange phenomenon of furries.

    E28: Ecological Escatology: Or, Shit to Farm to Table to Shit

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 4, 2022 48:22


    The boys sit down initially to discuss the phenomenon of furries and feces, but end up instead discussion anti-industrialism, Tolkien, anarchism, agriculture, and the natural farming philosophy of Japanese thinker Masanobu Fukuoka.

    E27: The Inner Kingdom—Asceticism as Escape?

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 20, 2022 229:11


    The boys are joined by returning guest Jonathan who wishes to critique and deconstruct asceticism as an escape from the true struggle. Cory gives an apology for the ascetic path as one that is not for most but nonetheless valid perennially in many traditions.

    E26: Submission

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 15, 2022 51:23


    Submission The boys sit down with their French friend Semyon, a scholar of Pharsi and Islam and student-teacher at the Sorbonne in Paris, to discuss neo-Platonism's influence in Islamic and Christian thought, and its relationship to universalist thought in both traditions.

    E25: God will be All in All

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 4, 2022 51:07


    The boys discuss salvation, Calvinism, universalism, and the history of soteriology.

    E24: My Milkshake Brings All the Horses to the Yard

    Play Episode Listen Later May 13, 2022 54:08


    The boys discuss the culinary achievements of White Castle milkshakes, Lexington's heritage as both the Athens of the West and the Horse Capital of the world and, in honor of Derby Day, the philosophy of sports.

    E23: Interview with an Exorcist

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 31, 2022 95:29


    The boys join Daniel, a long-time friend of Cory's, renegade exorcist, lay theologian, and metaphysician. They discuss spirits, the occult, djinn, the nature of demons, why Satan rebelled, and more.

    E22: Philosophy of Education: Beyond Truth and Falsity

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 23, 2022 64:16


    The boys discuss Cory's misadventures in his youth doing educational reconnaissance, then St. John of Damascus' strange propagandistic attack on Islam but why it scandalizes only modern Christians. For dessert, a foray into the very notions and hierarchies of truth at play in modernity and their evolutions parallel to academia and why the latter must be burned to the ground for there to be any hope of a true education, to rise from its ashes like a Phoenix.

    E21: Beyond the 50 Minute Hour: The Alchemist

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 22, 2022 125:36


    The boys pull a Lacan and go over the 50 minute hour with our special guest Ryan, a psychonaut alchemist, as they explore the darker depths of the Pharmakon. We apologize for the electronic buzz on Ryan's mic. During the recording session, the mic cable came loose and caused an un-fixable electronic sound in the audio. We hope it isn't too distracting. 

    E20: Raped by Magic

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 6, 2022 55:36


    The boys discuss magic, pharmakon, and the inevitability of all things mystical.

    E19: In the Garden of Eden

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 1, 2022 54:31


    Jonathan returns to discuss with the boys good and evil, the garden of Eden, moralism, the life of Crowley, and Plato's concept of the good.

    E18: Beyond Good and Evil

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 7, 2022 51:28


    The boys sit down with returning guest Jonathan (of seminal fame) to discuss the illusion of morality, the failure of the west to deal with the Euthyphro dilemma, caste hierarchy as the medium of determining one's ethical status and rules, and the theology of St. Dionysius the Areopagite who discovered the God beyond good and evil long before Nietzsche.

    E17: Deus Ex Machina

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2021 45:29


    The boys meet up with a physicist and AI aficionado to discuss the burgeoning field of artificial intelligence, the philosophy of science, and the mythology of epistemological certainty.

    E16: Cognitive Behavioral Tyranny, or The Death of Psychology

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 4, 2021 43:02


    The boys discuss the rise and fall of psychology and its inherent relation to religion.

    E15: The Return of the Repressed & the Twin Towers of Babel

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 8, 2021 50:19


    The boys return from hiatus to discuss what's been happening during their absences, Freud, Jung, Kant, and 9/11

    E14: The Perennial Tradition Contra Modernist Ecumenism: Evangelism of the Logos in the Heart

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 29, 2021 112:56


    The boys return to discuss the highly misunderstood perennial or Hermetic tradition. Are all religions true? Don't they all contradict each other? What is the Dao, the Way, the Logos, the Light?

    E13: The Grand Illusion

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 22, 2021 46:22


    the boys discuss the illusion of self, identity, and the soul (psyche)

    E12: Metapolitical Animals

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 4, 2021 68:44


    The boys discuss Ivan Ilyin, Dugin, 4th political theory, and the woes of mankind.

    E11: The Philosopher's Stone

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 27, 2021 50:42


    The boys continue their discussion on alchemy and the secret arts of the initiated.

    E10: Riding the Tiger: Seminal Retention, Paliogenesis, and the Alchemical Traditions in the Modern Age

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 15, 2021 63:25


    The boys have a special guest on to discuss alchemy and the ancient wisdoms of retaining one's semen.

    E9: Pharmakon, Magic, and Shamanism

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 10, 2021 46:08


    The boys discuss pharmakon per Plato and the Bible, the nature of magic, shamanism and its relation to psychoanalysis and the media, hypnotism, and the ontotheology of eye contact

    E8: Here Be (More) Demons

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 24, 2021 48:35


    The boys return to discussing the demons and the occult, including vampire cults, voodoo dolls, giants, and the levels of demonic possession.

    E7: "Here be Demons"

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 9, 2021 50:08


    The boys discuss the realm of the demons, spirits, the occult, and their everyday effects on the world and ourselves.

    E6: Sexuality and Its Discontents

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 20, 2021 43:58


    The boys discuss ideology as fashion and sexuality as identity, and how unique modernity is in respect to sexuality and sexual identity compared to the rest of history.

    E5: Meditations on the Tarot

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2021 53:55


    The boys give a quick rundown of tarot and how it got corrupted in the enlightenment and the new age into becoming a divinatory art, but that at heart it has nothing to do with the "occult" or divination, and proceed to give a live reading to one of Calvin's friends, Hank.

    E4: The Myth of "History"

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 6, 2021 52:25


    The boys discuss over a nice pipe the (false) dichotomies of lucid dreaming and astral projection, myth and history, monotheism and polytheism, esoteric and exoteric, science and faith, dragons and dinosaurs, the word of God, and The Word of God.

    E3: The Subliminal Object of Ideology

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 28, 2021 45:40


    The boys discuss wine moms, St. Dionysius the Areopagite in relation to Aquinas and the west, ideology, and the subliminal object of ideology.

    E2: The Hauntology of the Pornographic Image

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 14, 2021 47:36


    Cory and the gang discuss icons, Plato's Phaedrus, the danger of photography, art, the Unabomber, and the perversion of religion towards the totalizing ideology of our pornographic spectacle of the modern world.

    E1: Hail! Initiation!

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 31, 2021 53:02


    Hail! Initiation! Welcome to the first episode of "The 50 Minute Podcast!" In today's podcast, Cory Banta (host) discusses his background. Cory explains who he is, where he's from, his education, and some of what he believes. We hope you enjoy the podcast, and we are excited to bring you episode two next week.

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